Woke up at 7:30 am! Just can’t sleep in, blah. I got a message yesterday from another Gunma teacher that also does photography. He wanted me to model for fantasy concept shoot idea he had. The other guy that was supposed to come, couldn’t make it, so we decided to just do single photos. I met him at Isesaki station at 1 pm after fitting in some grocery shopping in the morning. He bought me Starbucks and a scone as thanks. I didn’t have time to eat lunch before catching the train ha. The chai tea tasted the same as US’s unlike Europe’s. We had a lot of driving ahead of us. The first location was on a bamboo path down to a rocky river near Mizunuma. Such beautiful fall colors everywhere!

Then we drove up Mt. Akagi. It was a long, steep, curvy ascent, but completely beautiful. Mt. Akagi is used by the drifters so you could see the scrapes on the side railings, and tire tracks all over the road. They had these waves in the road as a deterrent. Definitely got to see some super nice cars! The top of the mountain was already completely bare around the lake and shrine. We took some more photos in a gazebo, but just portrait shots. It was only about 5 C (41 F) out at this time so I got to keep my jacket on, whew. He dropped me off in Takasaki and I headed home via train.